Rose Received an NSF CAREER Award
Rose received the NSF CAREER Award for her proposal entitled “MINDWATCH: Multimodal Intelligent Noninvasive brain state Decoder for Wearable AdapTive Closed-loop arcHitectures.” She proposed using smartwatch-like devices to infer brain states that are typically inaccessible except via neurotechnologies such as electroencephalography (EEG). Instead, tiny variations in sweat secretions and changes in heart (pulse) rates can be used to infer some of this information, and eventually be used to provide closed-loop therapy for patient care. Read more
MIT Technology Review selected Rose as one of the visionaries in its list of Innovators Under 35 for the year 2020. The recognition highlighted her idea of sensor-laden wrist-watches that could monitor states of the brain traditionally accessed via neuroimaging technologies such as EEG. The idea would not only have clinical relevance for treating patients with neuropsychiatric or hormone disorders but would also have applicability to people who want to improve everyday health as well. Futuroprossimo, an Italian futurology magazine, also highlighted her as one of the three MIT Technology Review’s 2020 Innovators Under 35 female awardees, who work on an innovation that has the highest potential for a future Nobel prize. Read more
Rose presented CML’s research findings at several invited talks including the Medical Wearables Conference, University of Maryland IEEE Leadership Seminar, MIT Technology Review’s Conference on Emerging Technologies, MIT Neural Signal Processing Seminar, and University of Texas Health Science IoT and Aging in Place Workshop.
The Cullen College of Engineering recognized Rose’s contributions to research and teaching excellence in the 2019-2020 Faculty and Student Excellence Awards. She received a Teaching Excellence Award for outstanding teaching and service to students and a junior-level Faculty Research Excellence Award. Read more
Rose is featured by the IEEE Women in Engineering Magazine as a “Woman to Watch”. Her career from her student days to an assistant professor, her love for writing poetry and some of her outreach activities were described in an article published in the June issue. Rose’s work was featured by the IEEEXplore in August. CML’s work on tracking brain states based on tiny variations in sweat secretions was featured. Read more on the IEEE WIE Feature
Rose was selected For 2020-21 Interstellar Initiative, a program by the New York Academy of Science and theJapan Agency for Medical Research and Development to bring together promising young researchers from different countries to address major research challenges related to healthy longevity.
Students in Rose’s “State-space Estimation with Physiological Applications” class completed a number of projects in modeling the spread of COVID-19 infections in different parts of the world and created several YouTube videos to disseminate the knowledge to the general public. Read more
- CML Ph.D. student Hamid Fekri has been selected for the UH Cullen College of Engineering Future Faculty Program. The program is intended to prepare top-performing Ph.D. students for a successful career in academia.
- Jon Genty received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) for his summer research at CML. Jon’s work involves analyzing growth hormone and skin conductance data to investigate applications to disease diagnosis.
- CML graduate students presented posters at two conferences organized by Rice University: the Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience Conference, and the Ken Kennedy Institute Data Science Virtual Conference. The posters featured some of CML’s latest work on sparse deconvolution, estimation, and control with regard to recovering unobserved brain states from peripheral physiological signals.
Four CML students graduated in 2020
Dilranjan Wickramasuriya successfully defended his PhD thesis in December 2020 as the first PhD graduate of CML.
Srinidhi Parshi and Divesh Pednekar successfully defended their M.S. theses in May 2020 as the first two M.S. graduates of CML.
Jon Genty successfully defended his undergraduate Honors thesis in November 2020.